I believe MIUI V5 has brought endless surprises to you since its release, no matter about its UI, or its detail-oriented functions. I guess you know no less than me about all its functions. Therefore, here I’ll present to you some tips in using MIUI V5. If you already know them, then consider this as a review to remind you of the reasons you love MIUI V5. {:1_1:}

Update(March 25, 2014): System Operation: 18. How to make your phone auto start using MIUI

1. Double click on the lock image (the area marked in the first picture below) can switch between music player and lockscreen.

2. Long press on Back key in lockscreen mode (without a password) can enter camera. You can find this function in Complete Settings——Buttons & keys.

3. Long press on Home button in lockscreen mode can turn on the flashlight. Press for three seconds until the phone vibrates, and the screen will turn black and the flashlight will remain on. To turn it off, just press anywhere on the screen.

4. Press volume up key and back key together can unlock the phone (without a password).

Contacts & Calls & SMS

1. You may have some important message in your SMS inbox, and want them to be the first ones you see when entering SMS. That indeed can be done. Just check the messages you need, and press Pin.

3. When others ask you for another person's contact information, you may have to memorize it or take note of it and then tell them. But with MIUI, you don't have to go through all these trouble.

4. When sending group messages, we used to have to address all the receivers by the same name, and it sometimes seem to be a little impersonal. But with MIUI, those times have come to an end. 5. With MiCloud service, you can send messages from the computer. Just log into http://i.xiaomi.com

6. When there's an incoming call, the ringtone will automatically increase if you don't answer it in 30 seconds.

7.I beleive most of you have the experience of getting annoying sales calls. But when there's an unknown number calling, you have to answer in case it's something important. With MIUI, you can easily tell whether you should answer a call or not.

8. Some of you may know that in MIUI V2.3, it has a different gesture when answering calls, that is swip vertically.

V2.3 V5

Now, if you prefer that way, you can still have it in MIUI V5.

Go to Setting in the Phone page, select Call settings

Choose Answer gesture - Vertical swipe

9. If two people both use the MIUI system, they can send free messages and pictures via the Internet.

10. If a call is important, you can record it or take notes of important contents.

11. Sometimes you forgot to switch your phone mode to Vibrate or Silence in a meeting or during an important conversation. If someone calls you and your phone rings, you may feel embaressed fumbling to turn the sound off. With MIUI, you can make your phone silent in a flip.

12. Some of you, especially boys, like to put your phone in your pocket. And if there's an incoming call, you may misoperate when taking the phone out. Here's a way to avoid this risk.

Comeplete settings—Display—Prevent misoperation

This is how it looks like.

13. After you've changed your phone, all the contacts information can be imported to your new phone in a minute. Press Menu button in the Contacts page, choose Import/export, and then choose Import from other phone.

14. You may find your contacts have no avatars or location information, that's because you've turned on Simple mode. Solution? Turn it off. :)

15. What do you do when there're duplicate contacts in your phone? Delete one of them by yourself? Well, that's unnecessary if you use MIUI.

Choose in what situation do you want the phone to auto-answer your calls, and the interval before it auto-answering incoming calls. And it's done. You don't have to worry about missing calls because you answered a little late.

And don't worry about answering spam calls by mistake. Enable the function Identify unknown numbers and you'll be fine.

22. How to quickly import contacts to non-MIUI devicesLog into MiCloud Service (i.xiaomi.com) on phone or computer

Click on the More Actions button on the left bottom side in Contacts, and select Export Contacts

Then select Start exporting on the page in right, it will start exporting all your contacts as a vCard file

If you're operating on phone, choose where to save the file. If you're operating on computer, copy the file to your phone after downloading is completed.

1. When you're listening to music, if you pull out the earphone or turn off the bluetooth headset, the music will be automatically paused. Neat. Isn' it?

2. Gently slide up/down on the music icon to enable music player.
3. Manually add artist avatar in Music
Computer\*\Internal storage\MIUI\music\avatar

Download pictures- Name them the same with the artists.. jpg png support.

Automatically Download Artis Avatar

4. Like taking pictures of yourself? Turn on the Front camera mirror, and your pictures will no longer be reversed.

5. There added a professional mode in camera, and gives us more options when taking pictures.

6. Want to take a picture with your friends but there's no one else around? Use the Audio capture function. Your hands will be free from now on.

7. You may find it hard to press the shutter when you're trying to take a picture of your self. But you may not know, the shutter key is not your only choice. The other option is Volume Keys.

Camera settings—Volume Key Functions

Volume? Shutter? Zoom? It's your call.

8. When you're using the recorder, your phone will be automatically muted.

The recording process won't be interrupted by incoming calls.

The record will be saved as MP3, and won't show in the playlist.

9. Sometimes you may want to apply a theme or wallpaper, but no sure whether it will look good on your phone. There may no longer be a preview button in the theme market, but you can tab on the image to enter preview.

System Operation

1. How cool would it be if you can put whatever you want to say on the lockscreen page? Follow the steps below, and it will be done.

2. Long press on any icon in Toggles to enter its setting page. This design will actually save us a lot of time.

3. Want to sleep in on weekends but forgot to turn off the alarm clock? You won't have this problem if you use MIUI clock.

4.We all like to sleep a little longer after the alarm clock set off. In this situation, a snooze function is necessary. It's annoying If the snooze duration is too short, and you may start to worry if it's too long. In MIUI, you can set the snooze duration yourself!

5. Slide down on Notes icon to create a new note.

6. Press the menu button and enter Settings. There you can choose to view your notes in List or Grid mode.

7.You can also create new folders like on the computer.

Select the notes you want to put into the folder, and move them there.

8. When editing a note, you can set a reminder time for it, add attachments, or select colors for it.

You can also choose the font size you use.

You can send a note to your friends and family in many ways.

You can also send a note to the homescreen. Long press on it to change its size.

16. Use more data than your package allows every month? Always forget to check your data usage? Well, then you can choose to put it right in front of you, and you won't have to worry about over usage anymore.

17. How to batch delete appsEnter homescreen edit mode, and select the apps you want to delete to put them to the taskbar

Enable Autop-brightness in notification shade, or in Setting-Display - Brightness. Allow the phone to adjust its screen brightness with the change of outside lights, and save yourself from adjusting the brightness manually.

Disable Screensaver if you don't really need it. And set for the phone to go to sleep within a minute of inactivity.

2) Disable WiFi and Data connection when you're not using them. And disable auto-sync function

3) Personally, I don't think vibration has much use. So I always turn it off. But if you must use this function, try setting it to the Light level.

4. Sometimes you may run into an app that doesn't have an option to close it. Or sometimes an app would stop response and you have to close it in a unnormal way. In such situations, you can simply use the Back Key to solve the problem.

Complete settings——Buttons & keys

Back key

Close current application

5. Follow the steps below and add the webpages you always us to the homescreen. Next time you want to open it, just a press will do.

Add the webpage to Bookmarks and long press on it.

6.Sometimes some unknown errors may cause some apps to FC, which is really annoying. Now, there's a real simple way to deal with that.

Long press on the Home button to open the clearing widget. Then long press on the app that FCed to enter its App info page.

Select Clear data and Clear cache. And it's done.

This method only applies to system apps and third-party apps that is installed and can run normally.

If a new installed app FC, or an app FCs after updating, it's probably because the app itself is unstable, or it's not compatible with your phone. You can solve this problem by using another version of the app or go back to its older version.

If a system app FC, it's because the system is unstable. You'll have to upgrade your system or go back to a stable version you used before.

7.Your phone got stuck during update? Your screen won't wake up? Your phone is dead because of some apps? In similar situations or in the Recovery/fastboot mode, it's not the best way to remove the battery. Here's a way to forcibly reboot your phone: just long press the Power button for 10 seconds.

8.Most of you must have a screensaver for your computer, and now with MIUI you can also set one for your phone.

First go to File Explorer - DCIM, and create a new folder as your screensaver album. Then add pictures into it

Go to Gallery - Local images - the new folder you created, and set it as screensaver

Go back to Gallery - Settings, there're several options about screensaver

Now I have a screensaver for my phone. Try and set a screensaver for your device.